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While the ABC, NBC, and CBS morning shows on Tuesday all jumped on potential Republican 2016 contenders Chris Christie and Rand Paul being sympathetic toward parents skeptical of child vaccinations, all three broadcast networks ignored Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton holding the same positions in 2008.

On Tuesday’s CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley, CBS News congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes continued the liberal spin that the only anti-vaxxers are Republicans. In between soundbites from numerous figures in the Republican Party stating their support for vaccinations and only Republican Senator Rand Paul (Ky.) offering a slightly different take during an interview on Monday, Cordes ruled that the party has been sending “mixed messages” which could, in turn, benefit Hillary Clinton.

As many on the left rush to pin the anti-vaccine movement on conservatives, liberal New York Times columnist Frank Bruni pointed out on Monday’s CNN Tonight that the cause is actually more prevalent on the left side of the political spectrum: “I think a lot of the anti-vaccine people probably would hate to hear themselves lumped in with the climate change deniers. But they’re doing the same thing from different places on the political spectrum.”

ABC’s Good Morning America on Tuesday ignored the massive new budget proposed by Barack Obama (and the tax increases contained within). NBC’s Today, despite four hours of air time, allowed a scant 23 seconds. But in that brief period, news reader Natalie Morales spun, “President Obama unveiling a record $4 trillion budget on Monday aimed at helping the poor and middle class.”

While discussing answers by former and likely future presidential candidates on whether they have ever used drugs, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell invoked President Barack Obama’s book Dreams From My Father on Tuesday to provide Obama’s answer to the question in what became a gushing tribute that included a nearly three minute reading from the book. O’Donnell proclaimed that the memoir was the “most honest,” “open,” “artful,” and “finest literary work ever authored by a President of the United States” despite the book not containing “the whole truth of Barack Obama’s life.”

Nearly four years ago, the media establishment swiftly and baselessly linked the Tea Party to the shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords. But after this weekend’s murder of two New York City police officers, by a gunman who used the hashtag #ShootThePolice, there was no rush at ABC, CBS or NBC to condemn anti-police protesters who have employed the chant: “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want them? Now.”National Review’s Jonah Goldberg highlighted the outrageous double standard on Sunday’sMediaBuzz on the Fox News Channel.

During the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley on Thursday, CBS News congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes reported on the continued response from members of Congress to the move by President Obama to normalize relations with Cuba, but chose to exclusively play up the split among those in the Republican Party on the issue. Cordes first focused on the many Republicans against the President’s decision, with soundbites from Republican Senators Marco Rubio (Fla.) and John McCain (Ariz.) and Congresswoman Ilena Ros-Lehtinen (Fla.), but then made a point of pointing out that not all Republicans feel the same way.

On Tuesday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer and Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd began writing Barack Obama’s political obituary, but did so in the most sympathetic way possible. Lauer cited a line from Todd’s new book on the President: “And you write that in the foreseeable future, quote, ‘He [Obama] will be a president whose potential wasn’t realized.’ He came to Washington promising to bridge the political divide, change the discourse. Has that been his biggest failure?” Todd replied: “I think when you look at it, that was the great promise of Barack Obama. The guy in 2004 showed up at the convention, he was the one that was going to break this polarization….I think he will admit some day that’s his greatest disappointment…”

On Tuesday, NBC Nightly News channeled President Barack Obama from the day after the midterm elections and pointed to the low voter turnout for the election that saw Republicans gain control of the United States Senate as well as make additional gains in the House of Representatives. In a news brief, anchor Brian Williams highlighted the latest turnout estimate for “last week’s wave election for the GOP” as being “very bad” at “36.3 percent.” Williams noted that it would be the lowest in both “the modern era” and “since 1942, when a unified and occupied nation” was engaged in World War II when only 33.9 percent came out to vote.

Following a story on campaign spending ahead of the midterm elections on October 30, CBS News congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes filed a similar report on Tuesday night’s CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley with the topic focusing specifically on the “dark money groups” that are not required to disclose their donors. In setting up Cordes’s story, anchor Scott Pelley pivoted from a report on corruption and brutal crackdowns by the authoritarian Communist regime in China to saying that “[w]ell, government even in America is becoming murkier because of campaign finance laws that have become nearly a free-for-all.” When the report ended, he hailed it as “insight from Capitol Hill” from Cordes.

In March, all three networks heralded a “sign-up” surge in ObamaCare numbers ahead of a deadline. Yet, when the administration announced on Monday that the number of people who enroll in the program will be “significantly lower by the end of next year,” ABC, CBS and NBC ignored the downbeat forecast. Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer announced, “The Obama administration once again moving its target on ObamaCare…The government, tonight, is rolling back on expectations on the number of Americans who will sign up and that could have consequences.”

On Tuesday morning, Bill Nye “The Science Guy” appeared on CBS This Morning to promote his new book, and used his platform as an opportunity to trash individuals who question the existence of manmade climate change. Speaking about his book “Undeniable: Evolution and the science of creation” Nye argued that “it’s not a coincidence that the creationists also deny climate change. It’s a really important thing.”

With the GOP set to officially take control of the United States Senate in January, Politico decided it was the perfect time to play up Democrats’ criticism of Senator Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), incoming Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, for being “the Hill’s most flamboyant critic of climate research.” In a piece published on November 10, authors Elana Schor and Alexander Burns promoted how “Democrats aspire to make Inhofe the face of GOP knownothingism, while at least one Republican consultant says his style of skepticism could create headaches for candidates up and down the ticket in 2016.”

During Thursday’sCBS Evening News with Scott Pelley, Nancy Cordes continued to disparage conservatives, as she referred to some of the newly elected House of Representatives members as being to Speaker John Boehner’s “far right flank” and joining returning Representatives who stifled “Boehner’s own attempts” to address illegal immigration. Cordes went after conservatives: “But Boehner’s own attempts to craft immigration legislation has been blocked by members of his own party who worry reform would give new rights to people who came here illegally and Tuesday’s election added more members on his far right flank, North Carolina’s Mark Walker has suggested blitzing the border with fighter jets. Virginia’s Barbara Comstock said undocumented immigrants should be tracked like FedEx packages.”

During his post-election news conference, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) was repeatedly pressed by CBS News reporter Nancy Cordes about “a new crop of conservatives coming into the House” who she implied Boehner would have trouble managing. The CBS reporter asked Boehner “so the hell no caucus as you’ve put it is getting bigger and some of them don’t think you’re conservative enough. How do you deal with them differently than you did in the last Congress?” Cordes began her questioning by listing off some new members of Congress “who have suggested among other things that women need to submit to the authority of their husbands, that Hillary Clinton is the anti-Christ and that the families of Sandy Hook victims should just get over it.”

On Thursday night, NBC Nightly News played up the current political state of affairs in Washington as both Republicans and Democrats having “dug in” to their policy preferences, but focused only on how Republicans want to repeal “the President’s signature accomplishment” and are angered that he will go through with an executive order on illegal immigration. Anchor Brian Williams first teased the upcoming segment by NBC News senior White House correspondent Chris Jansing by wondering “how’s that cooperation going that everybody promised after the election results.”

Covering the midterms on election night, Nightline anchor Dan Harris huffed that Senator-elect Joni Ernst’s 2014 campaign commercial was “downright bizarre.” As the returns rolled in and it became clear that Democrats had suffered massive losses, Harris recapped the year’s political commercials and the money behind them: “Most of it spent on a barrage of political ads that ranged from terrifying…to downright bizarre.” He then played a clip of the Iowa Republican proclaiming, “I grew up castrating hogs on an Iowa farm. So when I get to Washington, I’ll know how to cut pork.”

On Thursday’s NBC Today, White House correspondent Chris Jansing blamed Republicans for upsetting the supposed conciliatory mood in Washington following Tuesday’s GOP midterm wave: “Well, what looked to be at least a temporary truce between President Obama and Congress lasted less than 24 hours. Republican leaders now say the focus of the new Congress will be to repeal the President’s signature accomplishment, ObamaCare. That after the President struck an optimistic tone in his post-election press conference.” She portrayed Obama as peacemaker: “He didn’t promise any changes to his style or his staff, but he said he got the voters’ message and pledged to compromise across the aisle after a new breed of Republican helped the GOP take control of the Senate.”

On election night, the PBS program Charlie Rose had an all-liberal panel to whine about the Democratic Party’s electoral losses throughout the country and complain that President Obama didn’t tout his political agenda throughout the campaign season. During the discussion, Bloomberg View’s Al Hunt argued that “this is the most content free election I`ve ever seen. The Republicans basically ran totally against Barack Obama… the Republicans have been nothing but negative.” The segment began with liberal historian Doris Kearns Goodwin lamenting how President Obama has lost the bully pulpit that existed under FDR that he needs to sell his agenda.

CBS News congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes profiled the North Carolina Senate race during Wednesday night’s CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley and devoted much of her report highlighting the fact that the race between incumbent Democratic Senator Kay Hagan and Republican challenger and State House Speaker Thom Tillis has become the most expensive Senate race of the cycle. Specifically, Cordes blamed the Supreme Court as it “paved the way for unlimited outside spending in a 2010 decision commonly known asCitizens United, which overturned parts of a campaign finance law authored by Republican John McCain.”

ABC and NBC failed to cover the upcoming midterm elections during their Wednesdayevening broadcasts, but instead devoted over three-and-a-half minutes going after New Jersey Governor Chris Christie ( R) for confronting a protestor earlier in the day during an event marking the second anniversary of Superstorm Sandy. Christie, who has been known to receive praise from the mainstream media (rare for a Republican), was not that personon Wednesday as ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir reported he was “unscripted” and “lashing out” as he engaged in “a war of words” with the heckler in what “was supposed to be a mission accomplished moment” for promoting the rebuilding of the Jersey Shore.

Carol Costello’s liberal bias emerged yet again on Tuesday’sCNN Newsroom, as she covered the catastrophic failure of the Antares rocket during a launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility. Costello wondered, “Can NASA really trust private companies to do its business?” The anchor later pressed on with her skepticism of private business: “Well, you know, it’s a concern, because NASA also plans to use private companies to take astronauts into space. Should those plans be put on hold in light of what happened?”

Appearing on Fox News’s O’Reilly FactorTuesday night, media analyst Bernard Goldberg praised reporter Sharyl Attkisson for calling out the liberal bias of her former employer, CBS News, in her upcoming book. He then lamented the difficultly in ending such bias: “But here’s why the problem is not going to go away. Even if top management wants to eliminate this liberal bias, there are too many producers and reporters in important positions at all the networks who are liberal, and who let their liberalism affect their journalism.” Goldberg proposed a way to stop the problem: “If you’re a repeat offender and you let your biases show, you not only get fired, you get publicly fired, and the management let’s everybody know why you got fired. And perhaps that will make the rank and file, you know, come into line.”

“In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government. They can exist without the latter, but the latter cannot exist without them.” –Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833

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Deception, lies, misinformation..When is the last time a progressive, liberal, dhimmicrat told the truth, the complete truth and the whole truth..

Rights a re Rights. If they are ‘regulated’ they are not ‘rights’ now are they?

When British-owned Reed Exhibitionsannounced that the nasty-old black rifle was being banned from a consumer show described as “a celebration of America’s hunting and fishing values” it kicked off a spontaneous demonstration of “average America’s” core values.

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These people should be tried for treason. Why? Ignoring the Constitution and putting themselves above it..Thugs, like Buck Ofama…Thugs..

More Media bias..ABC and CBS..

The annual pro-life march, this year marking the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v Wade decision, drew tens of thousands to Washington, DC on Friday, but didn’t garner a syllable of coverage on Friday’s World News on ABC nor the CBS Evening News. Yet on Saturday night, both newscasts highlighted a pro-gun control protest in DC which CBS anchor Jim Axelrod pegged at drawing “close to a thousand people.” The NBC Nightly News noted both protests and on Friday night also reported how a federal appeals court unanimously decided that President Obama violated the Constitution when he made recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board, a rebuke neither ABC nor CBS found newsworthy.

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And it continues..The Media bias as NBC jumps in spouts off along with CBS..

On their evening and morning news shows on Thursday and Friday, NBC and CBS were quick to tout Democratic efforts to reimpose an assault weapons ban, with NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams proclaiming the move to be “the latest step in the ongoing response to the Newtown, Connecticut school shootings.” On CBS Evening News, correspondent Nancy Cordes described the scene as the legislation was announced on Thursday: “Flanked by police officers, doctors, and mayors, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California made her case today for banning the types of weapons used to carry out mass shootings.” Cordes further highlighted the stagecraft: “Feinstein also asked half a dozen gun victims to share their stories, to give the measure a human face. Lilly Habtu was shot three times at Virginia Tech.”

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Lets hope not. Becasue this will not go well with those of us whom refuse to submit..

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“Hunting, according to these wizards of odd, is what [the Left] think our founding fathers had in mind when they penned that pesky Second Amendment, and according to these control freaks we don’t need a tactical weapon with a high capacity magazine to hunt with. First off, dipsticks, the Second Amendment has nada to do with hunting. The founding fathers weren’t worried about their right to put the bam to Bambi (although we should be because progressives hate hunting and would love nothing more than to bring that activity to a grinding halt). If you don’t believe me, just corner one of these little darlings and ask them what they think about hunting. Secondly, who are they to tell us what we ‘need’ or don’t need when it comes to anything? Typical of the Left, they think they know what’s best for we the people. If you want to talk about ‘needs,’ Ms. Leftist, we don’t need iPhones, Porsches, crazy straws, American Idol, beer, leaf blowers, and I don’t need a gorgeous Italian wife. But that’s America, folks. Stay out of our business.” –columnist Doug Giles